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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Prud’homme) and English (of Norman origin) : nickname from Old French prud’homme ‘wise’, ‘sensible man’, a cliché term of approbation from the chivalric romances. It is a compound of Old French proz, prod ‘good’, with the vowel influenced by crossing with prudent ‘wise’ + homme ‘man’.

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